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What’s on TV Saturday: Flight of the Conchords and ‘A Prayer Before Dawn’

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Jemaine Clement, left, and Bret McKenzie in “Flight of the Conchords: Life in London.”CreditCreditColin Hutton/HBO

By Sara Aridi

Oct. 6, 2018

Get ready for “Business Time”: Flight of the Conchords gets a comedy special on HBO. And “A Prayer Before Dawn” comes to Amazon Prime.

What’s on TV

FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS: LIVE IN LONDON (2018) 10 p.m. on HBO; also on HBO streaming platforms. Flight of the Conchords may be in the past. But Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement, the musicians behind this comedic duo, haven’t put their guitars down just yet. In this new special, filmed at the Eventim Apollo in London, the witty New Zealanders perform classics from before their salt-and-pepper-hair days, as well as new originals from their Flight of the Conchords Sing Flight of the Conchords tour. For a preview, watch their recent performance of “Father & Son” on “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert.”

NO ESCAPE ROOM (2018) 9 p.m. on Syfy. This network will celebrate Halloween all month with fresh, spooky programming. Mark Ghanimé stars in this horror movie about a father-daughter team facing some serious frights in a small-town escape room.

VERSAILLES 10 p.m. on Ovation. This period drama series about the betrayal, politics and bedroom secrets that plagued Louis XIV’s reign is back for a third and final season. In this premiere, the French king (George Blagden) welcomes a royal relative, while the vengeful Madame de Montespan (Anna Brewster) goes after the king’s dutiful mistress, Françoise de Maintenon (Catherine Walker).

HIT PROPERTIES WITH NATHAN MORRIS 10:30 p.m. on DIY Network. Nathan Morris of Boyz II Men pivots to home improvement and restores a Florida mansion in this new four-part series.

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Joe Cole, center, in “A Prayer Before Dawn.”CreditA24/DIRECTV

A PRAYER BEFORE DAWN (2018) on Amazon Prime. This visceral action flick tells the true story of Billy Moore, an English boxer who landed in an infamous Thai prison over drug-possession charges. With nothing left to lose, Billy trains to fight for freedom in the prison’s Muay Thai tournaments. The director Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire shot the film in a Thai prison and cast real inmates, giving it an authentic edge over some other boxing dramas. Jeannette Catsoulis named the movie a Critic’s Pick in The New York Times and called it “the definition of an immersive experience.”

A GIRL CUT IN TWO (2008) on iTunes, Hulu and Mubi. Sometimes the heart wants it wants. Other times, it takes what it can get. Such is the premise of this dark French thriller by Claude Chabrol. The titular girl is Gabrielle (Ludivine Sagnier), a young weather presenter who is sought by two very different men: Charles (François Berléand), a married novelist 30 years her senior, and Paul (Benoît Magimel), a spoiled scion who doesn’t take no for an answer. The seemingly innocuous love triangle puts Gabrielle in a dangerous place — one she can’t get out of. “From its air of decadence to its prowling camera movements, this is a Claude Chabrol film from lurid start to surrealistic finish,” Manohla Dargis wrote in her review for The Times.